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While Kyiv is targeted relentlessly by Russian drones and missiles, Russians themselves express outrage at the fact that Ukraine has the audacity to retaliate.
DAVID PATRIKARAKOS: On Saturday, Yevgeny Prigozhin - the shaven-headed boss of Russia's notorious Wagner mercenary group - boasted that Bakhmut had been captured.
It has now been a year since Russia, my birthplace, invaded Ukraine. For 365 days, we have been waking up to news of Russian missile strikes, bombings, murders, torture and rape. It has been 365 days of shame and confusion, of wanting to turn away but needing to know what is happening, of watching Russians become "ruscists", "Orks" or "putinoids". For 365 days, the designation "Russian-American", previously straightforward, has felt like a contradiction in terms.
After the end of the Cold War, Russia seemed like the freest country in the world. It was also believed to be a country capable of repentance. The fact that nobody was called to answer for the communist regime’s crimes was viewed as proof of our collective desire for national healing, rather than as a deliberate effort by the new authorities to clear themselves of any blame.
Every Russian schoolchild knows that the name of the country’s main square ‘Red’ means ‘beautiful’. However, there are many o